KURSGUIDE

"I am in a cooking equipment shop: I contemplate the ranks of obscure devices, wondering wether to buy anything. My recurring questions are these: Is this thing necessary, or can I simply use the traditional tools (knives, whisks, bowls) together with the appropriate skills? Is this a gadget -  a complex device that can perform only one task - or a tool, a simple object that can be used, fluidly, in the complex pattern of human making? How much control would I have were I to use this thing? In summary: How would this expensive little item fit into the activity of cooking, performed, in a human way, for humans? 
As with cooking, so with scholarship. [...]
And I would contend that, despite the undeniable usefulness of some of the tools computers have given us, we still need to think more about how we should use computers in the humanities."
White (2011, p.95)

[White, G. (2011). On Scholarship. In T. Bartscherer and R. Coover (eds.), Switching codes. Thinking through digital technology in the humanities and arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 95-99.]